Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak issued a Republic Decree on Saturdayappointed ten members of the People's Assembly (Parliament) and amongthem seven are Christians.

According to Egyptian law, the President of the Republic has the rightto appoint ten members of the parliament which has 518 total seats.

Usually Mubarak appoints parliament members from Christian minoritybecause of low representation of them in the parliament.

Christians still complained that nomination of National Democratic Partydominating the last parliamentary elections shows low rate of theirrepresentatives who did not exceed 1% of the total candidates.

According to United Press Agency, the number of Christians are estimatedat between 7% and 10% of Egypt's population out of about 80 million people.